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OGDEN's BASIC ENGLISH
<br>Basic English Combined Word Lists<hr width="55%" color="maroon"></h2>
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Basic English consists of 850 words that can express the meanings that can be
found in a pocket dictionary.  This is then expanded with 100 words of
a general area of interest - science or business, and 50 words of a specialty
within that general area.  Thus any student's vocabulary is 1,000 words, plus
certain prefixes and suffixes.  A list of <a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/wordalpi.html">international words</a> is
assumed to be known.  Compound words made up of Basic words, where the origin
makes sense, are also allowed.  As are new words made from adding the
allowed endings, -er, -ed, -ing. Ogden provides a growth plan, the <a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word150.html">First Addendum</a> and the
<a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/wordalpn.html">Next Step</a> to the 2,000 word
level.  He considers the 2,000 word level to have achieved standard
English. Therefore, this list approximates a minimum standard English
wordlist whereafter the student can proceed on his own without difficulty.
<p>This maximum Basic English word list must not be confused with the
definition of Basic English as 850 words plus 150 specialty words.  This
maximum list is simply what the advanced student, with an interest in all
general areas - not specialties -
will know when transiting from the Basic English language to standard
English language.  It actually contains well over two thousand words.
In fact, the student is expected to know one specialty (<a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/intlword.html#sci">science</a>,
<a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/intlword.html#bus">business</a>, <a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/intlword.html#ver">verse</a>, etc.)
topic with an additional 50 words that are not of interest to the general audience
(chemistry, geology, economics, Bible, etc.).
</p><p>
VOA Special English has a 1,500 word vocabulary -- expanded with prefix and suffix
and an addendum of science words. VOA Special English is used every day
in international news broadcasts -- thus proving that a simple vocabulary
is effective.  As such, VOA Special English would be
considered by Ogden to be a specialty area of international news.
Ogden sought the advice of <a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/be3.html#radio">Radio Committees</a> in
different countries for a radio specialty word list and a
preliminary list is included here.  It consists of 248 words of general
interest, not limited to news.
</p><p><font color="#666666">
It will be interesting to compare VOA Special English with an approximately
same sized lists of Basic English.
Selection from the various Basic English lists to limit to 1,500 words
will be somewhat arbitrary.  Basic English 1500 will consist of the
850, the general topic areas, news parts of the radio specialty list,
and enough of the Basic English "next step" list to make the 1,500 number.
Direct comparison may not be totally appropriate,
but it will be interesting to see what two lists of a 1,500 word level
vocabulary (nominal) looks like.  This page is preparatory to making a
side by side listing.</font>



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<a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#a"> A </a> | <a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#b"> B </a> |<a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#c"> C </a> | <a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#d"> D </a> |
<a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#e"> E </a> | <a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#f"> F </a> |<a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#g"> G </a> | <a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#h"> H </a> |
<a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#i"> I </a> | <a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#j"> J </a> |<a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#k"> K </a> | <a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#l"> L </a> |
<a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#m"> M </a> | <a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#n"> N </a> |<a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#o"> O </a> | <a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#p"> P </a> |
<a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#q"> Q </a> | <a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#r"> R </a> |<a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#s"> S </a> | <a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#t"> T </a> |
<a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#u"> U </a> | <a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#v"> V </a> |<a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#w"> W </a> | <a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#x"> X </a> |
<a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#y"> Y </a> | <a href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#z"> Z </a>


<p><a name="a" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">A</a>
<br><b>Basic:</b>  &nbsp; a , able, about, account, acid, across, act, addition, adjustment, advertisement, agreement, after, again, against, air, all, almost,
am, among, amount, amusement, an, and, angry, angle, animal, answer, ant, any,
apparatus, apple, approval, arch, argument, arm, army, art, as, association,
at, attack, attempt, attention, attitude, attraction, authority, automatic, awake .
<br><b>Intl:  &nbsp;</b>   alcohol , Algebra , aluminum , ammonia , anesthetic ,
    April , Arithmetic , asbestos , August , autobus , automobile .
<br><b>Next:</b> &nbsp; <!--abdomen , -->absence , absorption , acceleration , acceptance , accessory ,
accident , active , address , adjacent , adventure , advice ,
age , agent , agency , ago , allowance , along , also , alternative , always ,
ambition , amplitude , anchor , ankle , appendage , application , approximation ,
arbitration , arbitrary , arc , area , arrangement , ash , asset , assistant ,
average , awkward , axis .
<br><b>Compound:</b> &nbsp;  aftereffect, afftertaste, afterthought, aircushion, airman, airmen, airplane, airtight, another, anybody, anyhow, anyone, anything, anywhere, away .
<br><b>Endings:</b> &nbsp;  actor, acting .
</p><p><a name="b" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">B</a>
<br><b>Basic: &nbsp;</b>
baby, back, bad, bag, balance, ball, band, base, basin, basket, bath,
be, beautiful, because, bed, bee, been, before, behavior, belief, bell, bent, berry, best, better, between,
bird, birth, bit, bite, bitter, black, blade, blood, blow, blue, board, boat, body, bone,
book, boot, boiling, bottle, box, boy, brain, brake,
branch, brass, bread, breath, brick, bridge, bright, broken, brother, brown, brush,
bucket, building, bulb, button, burn, burst, business, but, butter, by.
<br><b>Intl: &nbsp;</b> ballet , Bang , bank , bar , beef , beer , Biology , bomb .
<br><b>Next: &nbsp;</b> balcony , bale , bankrupt , bark , barrel , beak , beaker , beard ,
beat , behind , belt , bet , bill , birefringence ,
blame , blanket , both , bottom , brave , break, breakfast , breast ,
broker , bubble , bud , budget , buoyancy , bunch , burial , busy .
<br><b>Compound:</b> &nbsp;  backbone, backwoods, become, became, bedroom, beeswax, birthday, birthright,
blackberry, blackbird, blackboard, bloodvessel, bluebell, bookkeeper,
brushwood, buttercup .
<br><b>Endings:</b> &nbsp;  basing, based , builder , burner, burned, burning .

</p><p><a name="c" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">C</a>
<br><b>Basic: &nbsp;</b>
cake, camera, canvas, card, care, carriage, cart, cat, cause, certain,
chain, chalk, chance, change, cheap, cheese, chemical, chest, chief, chin, church,
circle, class, clean, clear, clock,  cloth, cloud,
coal, coat, cold, collar, color, comb, come,
comfort, committee, community, common, company, comparison, competition, complete, complex, computer,
condition, connection, conscious, control,
cook, copper, copy, cord, cork, cotton, cough, country, cover, cow,
crack, credit, crime, cruel, crush, cry,
culture, cup, custom, current, curtain, curve, cushion, cut.
<br><b>Intl: &nbsp;</b>    cafe , calendar , catarrh , cent , centi- , champagne , chauffeur , chemist ,
    Chemistry , check , chocolate , chorus , cigarette , circus , citron ,
    club , coffee , cocktail , cognac , College , colony .
<br><b>Next: &nbsp;</b>calculation , call , came , capacity , capital , carpet , cartilage ,
case , cast , cave , cavity ,
cell , ceremony , certificate ,
chair , character, charge , child , chimney , china , choice ,
circulation , circuit ,  circumference , civilization ,
clay , claim , claw , cleavage , clever , client , climber, clip ,
code , coil , collision , collection , column ,
combination , combine , communications , complaint , component , compound ,
concept , concrete , conductor , congruent , conservation , consignment ,
constant , consumer , continuous , contour ,  convenient , conversion ,
cool , corner , correlation , corrosion , cost ,  court ,
creeper , crop , cross , cunning , cusp , customs .
<br><b>Compound:</b> &nbsp; cardboard, carefree, caretaker, clockwork, commonsense, copyright,
cupboard .
<br><b>Endings:</b> &nbsp;  carter, clothier, clothing , cooker, cooked, cooking ,
crying.
</p><p><a name="d" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">D</a>
<br><b>Basic: &nbsp;</b>
damage, danger, dark, daughter, day, dead, dear,
death, debt, decision, deep, degree, delicate, dependent,
design, desire, destruction, detail, development,
did , different, digestion, direction, dirty, discovery, discussion,
disease, disgust, distance, distribution, division,
do , does , dog, done , door, down, doubt,
drain, drawer, dress, drink, driving, drop, dry, dust.
<br><b>Intl: &nbsp;</b> dance , December , deci- , degree , dollar , Dominion , dynamite .
<br><b>Next: &nbsp;</b> damping , date ,
debit , deck , decrease , defect , deficiency , deflation, degenerate ,
delivery , demand , denominator , department , desert , density ,
deposit , determining, dew ,
diameter , difference , difficulty , drift, dike , dilution,
dinner , dip , direct,
disappearance , discharge, discount, disgrace ,
dislike , dissipation, disturbance, ditch , dive , divisor , divorce ,
doll , domesticating , dreadful , dream , duct , dull , duty .
<br><b>Compound:</b> &nbsp; daylight, downfall .
<br><b>Endings:</b> &nbsp;  daily, dancer, dancing (to) , designer, dressing (up), driver , dropped, dropper , duster.
</p><p><a name="e" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">E</a>
<br><b>Basic: &nbsp;</b>
ear, early, earth, east, edge, education, effect, egg, elastic, electric,
end, engine, enough, environment, equal, error, even, event, ever, every,
example, exchange, existence, expansion, experience, expert, eye.
<br><b>Intl: &nbsp;</b> eight , electricity , eleven , Embassy , Empire , encyclopedia ,
    engineer , euro .
<br><b>Next: &nbsp;</b> each , easy ,
economy , efficiency , effort , either , elimination ,
employer , employment , empty , enemy ,
envelope , environment, envy , equation , erosion, eruption ,
evaporation , evening , exact , excitement , experiment,
exercise , explanation , explosion , export , expression , extinction ,
eyebrow , eyelash .
<br><b>Compound:</b> &nbsp; ear-ring, earthwork, evergreen, everybody, everyday, everyone, everything,
everywhere, eyeball .

</p><p><a name="f" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">F</a>
<br><b>Basic: &nbsp;</b>
face , fact , fall , false , family , far , farm , farther , fat , father ,
fear , feather , feeble , feeling , female , fertile ,
fiction , field , fight , finger , fire , first , fish , fixed ,
flag , flame , flat ,  flight , floor , flower , fly ,
fold , food , foolish , foot , for , force , fork , form , forward ,
fowl , frame , free , frequent , friend , from , front , fruit ,
full , further , future .
<br><b>Intl: &nbsp;</b>  February , fifteen , fifth , fifty , five , four , fourteen ,
    fourth , forty , Friday .
<br><b>Next: &nbsp;</b> factor , failure , fair , famous , fan , fastening , fault,
ferment, fertilizing , fever , fiber ,  figure , fin , financial ,
flash , flask , flesh , flood , flour ,
focus , forecast , forehead , foreign , forgiveness ,
fraction , fracture , fresh , friction , flint , flood , flow , foliation ,
frost , frozen ,
fume , funnel , funny , fur , furnace , furniture , fusion .
<br><b>Compound:</b> &nbsp; fatherland, fingerprint, firearm, fire-engine, firefly, fireman, fireplace,
firework, first-rate, football, footlights, footman, footnote, footprint,
footstep .
<br><b>Endings:</b> &nbsp; farmer , fisher(man) , folder , fired, firing.
</p><p><a name="g" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">G</a>
<br><b>Basic: &nbsp;</b>
gave , garden , general , get , girl , give , glass , glove , go ,
goat , goes , gold , gone , good , got , gat , government ,
grain , grass , great , green , grey/gray , grip , group , growth ,
guide , gun .
<br><b>Intl: &nbsp;</b> gas , Geography , Geology , Geometry , gram , glycerin .
<br><b>Next: &nbsp;</b> gate , generation , germ , germinating , gill, glacier , gland, god ,
grand , grateful , grating , gravel , grease ,
grief , grocery , groove , gross, ground ,
guard , guarantee, guess , gum .
<br><b>Compound:</b> &nbsp; gasworks, goldfish, goodlooking, good-morning, goodnight,
gunboat, gun-carriage, gunmetal, gunpowder .
<br><b>Endings:</b> &nbsp; gardener .

</p><p><a name="h" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">H</a>
<br><b>Basic: &nbsp;</b>
had , hair , hammer , hand , hanging , happy , harbor , hard , harmony ,
has , hat , hate , hath , have ,
he , head , healthy , hearing , heart , heat , helicopter , help , her , here , heredity ,
high , him , history , hole , hollow , hook , hope , horn , horse ,
hospital , hour , house , how , humor .
<br><b>Intl: &nbsp;</b>  half , hiss , hotel , hundred , hyena , hygiene , hysteria .
<br><b>Next: &nbsp;</b> habit , handkerchief , handle , heavy , hedge , hill , hinge,  hire ,
hold , holiday , home , honest , honey , hoof , host ,
human , hunt , hurry , hurt , husband .
<br><b>Compound:</b> &nbsp; handbook, handwriting, headdress, headland, headstone, headway,
hereafter, herewith, highlands, highway, himself, horseplay, horsepower,
hourglass, houseboat, housekeeper, however .
<br><b>Endings:</b> &nbsp; hanger, heater, heated, heating .

</p><p><a name="i" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">I</a>
<br><b>Basic: &nbsp;</b>
I , ice , idea , if , ill , important , impulse , in , increase ,
industry , ink , insect , instrument , insurance , interest , invention ,
iron , is , island , it , its .
<br><b>Intl: &nbsp;</b>  Imperial , inch, inferno , influenza , international .
<br><b>Next: &nbsp;</b> igneous , image , imagination , import , impurity ,
incentive, inclusion , index , individual ,  inflation , infinity , inheritance ,
innocent , institution , insulator ,
integer, integration, intelligent , intercept, internet, interpretation , intersection,
intrusion , investigation , investment , inverse , invitation .
<br><b>Compound:</b> &nbsp; inasmuch, income, indoors, inland, inlet, input, inside, instep, into, itself .
<br><b>Endings:</b> &nbsp; inner
</p><p><a name="j" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">J</a>
<br><b>Basic: &nbsp;</b>
jelly , jewel , join , journey , judge , jump .
<br><b>Intl: &nbsp;</b> January , jazz , July , June .
<br><b>Next: &nbsp;</b> jam , jaw , jealous , jerk , joint , jug , juice , jury , justice .
<br><b>Endings:</b> &nbsp; jeweler , joiner .

</p><p><a name="k" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">K</a>
<br><b>Basic: &nbsp;</b>
keep , kept , kettle , key , kick , kind , kiss , knee , knife , knot , knowledge .
<br><b>Intl: &nbsp;</b> kilo- , King .
<br><b>Next: &nbsp;</b> kennel , kidney , kitchen , knock
<br><b>Endings:</b> &nbsp; keeper .

</p><p><a name="l" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">L</a>
<br><b>Basic: &nbsp;</b>
land , language , last , late , laugh , law ,
lead , leaf , learning , least, leather , leg , left , less , let , letter , level ,
library , lift , light , like , limit , line , linen , lip , liquid ,
list , little , living , lock , long , loose , loss , loud , love , low .
<br><b>Intl: &nbsp;</b> latitude , lava , liter , liqueur , longitude .
<br><b>Next: &nbsp;</b> lace , lag , lake , lame , lamp , large , latitude, lawyer , layer, lazy ,
lecture , legal , length, lens , lesson , lever , lever ,
liability , license , lid , life , lime , limestone, link, liver , load , local ,
load , loan, locus , look , longitude , luck , lump , lunch , lung .
<br><b>Compound:</b> &nbsp; landmark, landslip, lighthouse, looking-glass .
<br><b>Endings:</b> &nbsp; laughing (at),  learner ,likely, locker, locking (up).

</p><p><a name="m" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">M</a>
<br><b>Basic: &nbsp;</b>
machine , made , man , manager , make , male , map , mark , market , married ,
match , material , mass , may ,
me , meal , measure , meat , medical , meeting , memory , metal ,
middle , might , military , milk , mind , mine , minute , mist , mixed ,
money , monkey , month , moon , more, morning , most , mother , motion , mountain , mouth , move ,
much , muscle , music , my ,  .
<br><b>Intl: &nbsp;</b>  macaroni , madam , magnetic , malaria , mania , March , Mathematics ,
    May , meter , meow , micro- , microscope , mile , milli- , million , minute ,
    Monday , Museum .
<br><b>Next: &nbsp;</b> magic , magnitude, manner ,
many , marble , margin , marriage , mast , mattress , mature ,
mean , meaning , medicine , medium, melt , member , mess , message , metabolism ,
mill , mineral , mixture ,
model , modern , modest , momentum , monopoly , mood ,
moral , moustache ,
mud , multiple , multiplication , murder .
<br><b>Compound:</b> &nbsp; manhole, maybe , myself .
<br><b>Endings:</b> &nbsp; marked , miner .

</p><p><a name="n" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">N</a>
<br><b>Basic: &nbsp;</b>
nail , name , narrow , nation , natural ,
near , necessary , neck , need , needle , nerve , net , never , new , news ,
night ,
no , noise , normal , north , nose , not , note , now , number , nut .
<br><b>Intl: &nbsp;</b>    neutron , nickel , nicotine , nine , November .
<br><b>Next: &nbsp;</b> nasty , nature , navy , neat , neglect , neighbor , nest ,
next , nice , node , nostril , nuclear, nucleus , numerator , nurse .
<br><b>Compound:</b> &nbsp; network, newspaper, nobody, nothing, nowhere .
<br><b>Endings:</b> &nbsp; nearer , noted .

</p><p><a name="o" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">O</a>
<br><b>Basic: &nbsp;</b>
observation , of , off , offer , office , oil , old , on , one ,only ,
open , operation , opinion , opposite ,
or , orange , order , organization , ornament , other ,
our , out , oven , over , owner.
<br><b>Intl: &nbsp;</b>  October , olive , once , omelet , one , opera , opium , orchestra , organism .
<br><b>Next: &nbsp;</b> obedient , officer , orchestra , ore , organ , origin ,
outcrop , outlier , overlap , oval , own , oxidation .
<br><b>Compound:</b> &nbsp; offspring, oncoming, oneself, onlooker, onto, outburst, outcome, outcry,
outdoor, outgoing, outhouse, outlaw, outlet, outline, outlook, output,
outside, outskirts, outstretched, overacting, overall overbalancing,
overbearing, overcoat, overcome, overdo, overdressed, overfull,
overhanging, overhead, overland, overleaf, overloud,
overseas, overseer, overshoe, overstatement,
overtake, overtaxed, overtime overturned,
overuse, overvalued, overweight, overworking .
<br><b>Endings:</b> &nbsp; outer
</p><p><a name="p" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">P</a>
<br><b>Basic: &nbsp;</b>
page , pain , paint , paper , parallel , parcel , part , past , paste , payment ,
peace , pen , pencil , person , physical , picture , pig , pin , pipe ,
place , plane , plant , plate , play , please , pleasure , plough/plow ,
pocket , point , poison , polish , political , poor , porter , position ,
possible , pot , potato , powder , power ,
present , price , print , prison , private , probable , process ,
produce , profit , property , prose , protest ,
public , pull , pump , punishment , purpose , push , put .
<br><b>Intl: &nbsp;</b>    pajamas , paraffin , paradise , park , passport , patent , pence, penny, penguin ,
    petroleum , phonograph , Physics , Physiology , piano , platinum ,
    police , post , potash , pound ,   President , Prince , Princess ,
    program , propaganda , Psychology , Purr , pyramid .
<br><b>Next: &nbsp;</b> packing , pad , pair , pan , paragraph , parent , particle , partner ,
party , passage , path , patience ,
pedal , pendulum , pension , people , perfect , petal ,
piston ,
plain, plan, plaster , plug ,
poetry , pollen , pool , population , porcelain ,
practice , praise , prayer , pressure , prick , priest, prime ,
probability , product , progress , projectile , projection ,
promise , proof , proud ,
pulley , pupil , purchase , pure .
<br><b>Compound:</b> &nbsp; pincushion, plaything , policeman, postman, postmark, postmaster, postoffice.
<br><b>Endings:</b> &nbsp; painter, painting , parting , playing, played , pleased (with) ,
pointer, pointing (at) , potter , printer , prisoner , producer,
</p><p><a name="q" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">Q</a>
<br><b>Basic: &nbsp;</b>
quality , question , quick , quiet , quite .
<br><b>Intl: &nbsp;</b> Quack , quarter , Queen , quinine .
<br><b>Next: &nbsp;</b> quantity , quotient.

</p><p><a name="r" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">R</a>
<br><b>Basic: &nbsp;</b>
rail , rain , range , rat , rate , ray ,
reaction , red , reading , ready , reason , receipt , record , regret ,
regular , relation , religion , representative , request , respect ,
responsible , rest , reward ,
rhythm , rice , right , ring , river ,
road , rod , roll , roof , room , root , rough , round ,
rub , rule , run .
<br><b>Intl: &nbsp;</b> radio , radium , referendum , restaurant , rheumatism , Royal , rum .
<br><b>Next: &nbsp;</b> race , radiation, ratio,
reagent , real , receiver , reciprocal , rectangle , recurring ,
reference , reflux , reinforcement , relative , remark , remedy ,
rent , repair , reproduction ,
repulsion , resistance ,  residue , resolution , result , retail ,
revenge , reversible ,
rich , rigidity , rise, rival ,
rock , rot , rotation ,
rude , rust .
<br><b>Compound:</b> &nbsp; reasonable ,  runaway .
<br><b>Endings:</b> &nbsp; raining, reader, reading , roller , ruler , rubber 

</p><p><a name="s" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">S</a>
<br><b>Basic: &nbsp;</b>
sad , said , safe , sail , salt , same , sand , saw , say ,
scale , school , science , scissors , screw ,
sea , seat , second , secret , secretary , see , seed , seen . seem , selection ,
self , send , sense , sent , separate , serious , servant , sex ,
shade , shake , shame , sharp , she , sheep , shelf , ship , shirt ,
shock , shoe , short , shut ,
side , sign , silk , silver , simple , sister , size ,
skin , skirt , sky , sleep , slip , slope , slow ,
small , smash , smell , smile , smoke , smooth , snake , sneeze , snow ,
so , soap , society , sock , soft , solid , some , son , song , sort ,
sound , soup , south ,
space , spade , special , sponge , spoon , spring , square ,
stage , standard , stamp , star , start , statement , station , steam , steel , stem ,  step ,
stick , sticky , stiff , still , stitch ,
stocking , stomach , stone , stop , store , story ,
straight , strange ,  street ,  strong , structure ,
substance , such , sudden , sugar , suggestion , summer ,  sun , support , surprise ,
sweet , swim , system .
<br><b>Intl: &nbsp;</b>    salad , sardine , Saturday , second , September , serum , seven ,
    sir , six , sixteen , sport , Sunday .
<br><b>Next: &nbsp;</b> sac , sale , sample , satisfaction , saturated , saucer , saving,
scale , scarp , schist , scratch , screen ,
seal , search , security , secretion , section, sedimentary , selfish ,
sensitivity , sentence , sepal , service , set ,
shadow , shale,  share, shave , shear, sheet , shell , shore , shoulder , show ,
sight , sill , similarity , since , skull ,  slate , sleeve , slide ,
social , soil, soldier , solution , solvent , sorry ,
spark , specialization, specimen , speculation , spirit , spit , splash , spot ,
stable , stain , stair , stalk , stamen , statistics , steady , stimulus,
storm ,
strain , straw , stream , strength , stress , strike , string , study ,
subject , substitution , subtraction, success , successive,
sucker , sum , supply ,
surface , surgeon , suspension, suspicious ,
swelling, swing , switch , sympathetic .
<br><b>Compound:</b> &nbsp; seaman, secondhand, shorthand, sideboard, sidewalk, somebody, someday,
somehow, someone, something, sometime, somewhat, somewhere, suchlike,
sunburn, sunlight, sunshade, sweetheart .
<br><b>Endings:</b> &nbsp; sailor , shocking, shocked, snowing , steamer,
stopper, stopping (up) , stretcher,.
</p><p><a name="t" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">T</a>
<br><b>Basic: &nbsp;</b>
table , tail , take , talk , tall , taste , tax ,
teaching , technology, tendency , test , than , that ,
the , their , them , then , theory , there , these , they , thick , thin , thing , this , those ,
though , thought ,
thread , throat ,  through ,  thumb , thunder ,
ticket , tight , tired , till , time , tin ,
to , toe , together , tomorrow , tongue , took, tooth , top , touch , town ,
trade , train , transport , tray , tree , trick , trousers , true , trouble ,
turn , twist .
<br><b>Intl: &nbsp;</b>    tapioca , taxi , tea , telegram , telephone , television, ten , terrace ,
    theater ,  thermometer , third , thirteen , thirty , thousand ,
    three , Thursday , toast , tobacco , torpedo , Tuesday , turbine ,
    twenty-one , twelve , twenty , twice , two .
<br><b>Next: &nbsp;</b> tailor , tame , tap , tear , tent , term, texture ,
thickness , thief , thimble , thorax , threat , thrust ,
tide , tie , tissue , tongs , too , total , towel , tower ,
traffic , tragedy , transmission , transparent , trap , travel ,
treatment , triangle , truck , tube , tune ,
tunnel , twin , typist .
<br><b>Compound:</b> &nbsp; today, tonight, tradesman .
<br><b>Endings:</b> &nbsp; talking (of), teacher , touching (up) ,
trader , trainer , training, troubling, troubled , turning (over) .
</p><p><a name="u" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">U</a>
<br><b>Basic: &nbsp;</b>
umbrella , under , unit , up, us , use .
<br><b>Intl: &nbsp;</b> university .
<br><b>Next: &nbsp;</b> ugly , unconformity , understanding , universe , unknown .
<br><b>Compound:</b> &nbsp; underclothing, undercooked, undergo, undergrowth, undermined,
undersigned, undersized, understatement, undertake, undervalued, undo,
upkeep, uplift, upon, upright, uproot, uptake .
<br><b>Endings:</b> &nbsp; used (to) .

</p><p><a name="v" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">V</a>
<br><b>Basic: &nbsp;</b>
value , verse , very , vessel , view , violent , voice .
<br><b>Intl: &nbsp;</b> vanilla , violin , visa , vitamin , vodka , volt .
<br><b>Next: &nbsp;</b> valency , valley , valve , vapor , variable, vascular,
vegetable , velocity , vestigial , victim , victory ,
volume , vortex, vote .
<br><b>Compound:</b> &nbsp; viewpoint .

</p><p><a name="w" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">W</a>
<br><b>Basic: &nbsp;</b>
walk , wall , waiting , war , warm , was , wash , waste , watch , water , wave , wax , way ,
we , weather , week , weight , well , went, were , west , wet ,
what , wheel , when , where , which , while , whip , whistle , white , who , whom , whose , why ,
wide , will , wind , window , wine , wing , winter , wire , wise , with ,
woman , wood , wool , word , work , worm , would , wound ,
writing , wrong .
<br><b>Intl: &nbsp;</b> Wednesday , whisky .
<br><b>Next: &nbsp;</b> weak ,  wedge , welcome ,  whether , wholesale , widow , wife , wild ,
world , wreck , wrist .
<br><b>Compound:</b> &nbsp; waterfall, weekend, well-being, well-off, whatever, whenever, whereas,
whereby, wherever, whichever, whitewash, whoever, windpipe, within,
without, woodwork, workhouse .
<br><b>Endings:</b> &nbsp; waiter , worker , working (on, out, up) , writer ,
waiting, wasted .
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your, yours ,
<a name="z" href="http://ogden.basic-english.org/word2000.html#toc">Z</a>
<br><b>Basic: &nbsp;</b> year ,  yellow ,  yes ,  yesterday ,  you , young .
<br><b>Intl: &nbsp;</b> zebra , zinc , Zoology .
<br><b>Next: &nbsp;</b> yawn.
<br><b>Compound:</b> &nbsp; x-ray, yearbook, yourself , zookeeper <font size="1"><sup>1</sup></font>.
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